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Article #73603Re: Network security, the media, & the FSF
From: Joe Buck
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1991 05:22
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1991 05:22
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In article <8848@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes:
>My view is that the Net As We Know It is now a city of about 1 million
>occupants, and the FSF was being a little like the traditionalist who
>likes to leave his car doors unlocked and his front door open for
>visitors to drop by. Alas, the city is now full of anonymous hackers
>who are like common criminals. We can no longer turn back and expect
>our city to be like the village in which everyone knows everyone else.
Still, there may be one useful effect: I hope certain people at FSF
have finally become disabused of the silly notion that computer security
(passwords, file protection, etc) are gratuitous and unnecessary since
all information should be shared (prep used to have all its FTP files set
to mode 666 or 777, for example). Even if everyone were a saint, making
valuable files read-only protects against accidents.
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Joe Buck
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,9ae74b2505663529 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-08-09 22:36:35 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!ohm.berkeley.edu!jbuck From: jbuck@ohm.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Network security, the media, & the FSF Message-ID: <1991Aug10.052217.16693@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 10 Aug 91 05:22:17 GMT References: <8848@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 19